Contributed by angele. Posted by scott on Wednesday, December 4, 2002 at 2:38 AM (EST)

Angie Lalonde writes "I'm happy to say I recently got the chance to quickly catch up with the Mustard Plug men before their latest Ottawa performance. Being The Planet Smashers were late for their interview, I thought why not, instead of wasting my money and sobriety at the bar, it'd be better to use my time more productively and do a short interview with these legendary Ska boys who candidly participated..."
Click READ MORE for her interview with Mustard Plug's Dave, Colin, and Brandon and look out for that Planet Smashers interview soon.

ANGIE: So how has the tour been so far, cause I think this has been more of a Ska tour right?
DAVE: It‚??s been amazing! (All, the band agrees)
A: The fact there‚??s so much Ska, do you think it made it better?
COLIN: Yeah‚?¶
D: Them, kids really want the Ska bad right now.
A: And you guys just released a new L.P in September, Yellow #5. Has this tour been great for you guys on promoting it?
D: Think so‚?¶
A: Cause I‚??ve read some reviews that said it sounded better than some previous albums?
D: A lot, say it‚??s the best one since ‚??Evildoers Beware‚??‚?¶
C: We‚??ve been playing our sets fairly heavy on the new album so‚?¶ Nobody‚??s been complaining (laughing).
BRANDON: I noticed a lot of people know the words.
D: People, always complain so‚?¶
A: Oh, yes I‚??m aware of that, how do you guys take that criticism?
C: Just general criticism‚?¶?
A: Yes, people can be absolutely awful and they‚??ll say anything to you, be it you‚??re a sell out, you suck whatever, how do you take that or by now does it just go over you heads?
D: Yeah‚?¶
C: Yeah, I don‚??t know we‚??ve been doing what we do for so long that, there‚??s nothing we can do about it anyways, (laughing).
D: These days we get more ignored than criticized so‚?¶ (laughing)
A: And I heard you guys are going to the U.K in January, is that all booked and set?
D: Yeah, it‚??s like 90% booked I think.
A: How many times have you gone?
D: Four times...
A: Do you have a huge following out there, how is the Ska scene?
D: It‚??s solid.
C: Yeah, England is awesome, the last time we were there it was really big.
B: The shows were packed every night, two solid weeks‚?¶
C: Actually we were planning on going south in January to get out of the snow but actually they kind of came to us and said we need you guys to come back, so‚?¶
A: Are you going to bring any other bands with you?
D: It‚??s just us and probably the two local bands, but I don‚??t remember, are agent picked up two bands cause we don‚??t really know the English scene that well.
A: You guys just finished a tour with Digger as well they‚??re great guys how did your two sounds go together.
D: Good, that was with Digger and Whippersnapper. They‚??re drunks like us so it was fun‚?¶
B: We‚??ve been playing shows with those guys for a while and we‚??ve taken them on other tours so‚?¶
A: When Mustard Plug started out, did you always have a set plan that you would be and stay a Ska band?
D: Yes‚?¶
A: Did you ever want to sway from that?
B: The Mustard Plug sound has been going on for quite awhile hasn‚??t really ever changed.
D: We‚??ll always try something here and there for a new song, we write it song by song‚?¶
A: And being that your band isn‚??t a conventional four-piece does it make touring that much harder, trying to get everyone around?
C: It makes it that much funner, you can get more people to drive the van, to go to the bar with‚?¶
A: And for your last question, I always love asking bands, who do you think will set the standard for retirement in the punk industry? Cause really everyone who started on Fat Wreck Chords is still playing and Bad Religion‚?¶
D: Who do you think will stay in the longest?
A: Yeah, I‚??m thinking NOFX maybe but Fat Mike‚??s still at it‚?¶
(Someone yells out Mustard Plug)
B: The Descendants have already kind of done that, they‚??re so self contained in all their stuff, but I mean they‚??re still doing things so. It‚??s hard to say‚?¶
D: It‚??s tough‚?¶
C: There‚??s a lot of old schoolers out there, I don‚??t know?
D: Bad Religion‚??s been going it for awhile too, maybe NOFX though, it‚??s true?
C: Motorhead‚?¶
D: Motorhead! You‚??re absolutely right, that man is absolutely right!
A: Well thank you so much guys for doing this quick interview and good luck on the rest of your tour.

This is just my opinion...but when you interview a band, it's not really to professional (and kinda rude) to start a conversation on if two different bands are going to retire first
Besides that and the fact that, what do i care? mustard plug has been around over a decade now, ask question about them......not about bands that have nothing to do with

you know the whole "why don't you do it" response is getting kind of old. just because somebody does something doesn't mean it's good just because they did it. stop trying to defend a crappy job with that lame response.

No, the "Why don't you do it?" never gets old, because if nobody did it, then there'd be nothing for us to read about here on Punknews.
My apologies for attacking you, but I'm just getting sick of the elitism on this site. People always talking down about the work that everyone does, it's amazing that people continue to contribute to this site.

Funny story about Mustard Plug, a few years back I saw them open for a certain band (who shall remain nameless) and I spoke with the frontman of this band (who has been very instrumental in the punk scene for the past, oh, 20 years) and he said how they were pretty much asswipes and jerks on the road. The odd thing was if I named the band he's from you guys would be shocked.
Lets just say I spoke with the some guys from Mustard Plug later on, and I'll be damned if they didn't have the same attitude as previously described. Ever since I have utterly disliked Mustard Plug.
-sickboi
-sickboi

Funny story, this summers Warped Tour Mustard Plug hung out with me and my friends at their tent. They weren't jerks and were very nice guys to all of us. The frontman of that punk rock band was probably upset a little ska band like MP outplayed them that night

hell no man..i booked mustard plug on a few shows like 3-4 years ago and they were awesome. they gave me no shit what so ever. just had a ton of fun. and you'd be surprised what fuckin dicks some of your "idols" in some bands are. you think some people are punk and then you realize they're money hungry, yurn to be mainstream, and just as bitchy as some other real rock stars. it's all a huge facad. get off the plug...they're cool shit.

Mustard Plug literally are the nicest guys I've ever met(and i dont just mean guys in a band) I mean, the nicest guys ive ever met in general, I seen em 4 times and each time they were very very nice guys.`

I agree with the other responses to this message.... I am from Grand Rapids, know those bastards, and they are fucking great guys.... the old bass player used to come to my sports events in HS... *lol* they rock...
WEZ

Eh I agree with the other four guys when the say mustard plug is one of the nicest bands around.. seriously, one of the main reasons they're one of my fav bands is because of how cool they are to their fans and their attitude towards the music they play